All the headlines from our North Carolina Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 6 2007 // As far as Dick Lennox is concerned, things that go “bump” on the road are good for business. Still, even the owner of Lennox Body Shop would like to see a little less of it on local roads.An analysis in...
Apr 3 2007 // Personal lines underwriter Jamie Canady has joined Burns & Wilcox at the broker’s Morehead City, N. C., office. Canady is experienced in high-value homeowners, personal umbrella, excess flood, vacant dwellings...
Apr 2 2007 // Hoke County, N.C. authorities raided three houses last week and arrested three illegal immigrants, also seizing phony documents and equipment used to make them.Among the items seized were dozens of phony drivers’...
Apr 2 2007 // North Carolina lawmakers are considering taking away the state insurance commissioner’s power to set rates for some policies, as industry groups complain the office leans toward consumers in rate disputes.Under...
Mar 27 2007 // The General Assembly in Raleigh agreed last week to remove a 25-year-old exception to the state’s child safety seat law after federal regulators said it would keep them from giving North Carolina a $1 million...
Mar 23 2007 // R. Cleve Folger, a founding partner at TriSure Corp., was named president elect of the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina. Folger will assume his duties at the association’s annual convention in October.A...
Mar 16 2007 // A state panel in North Carolina, acting against the pleas of the state fire marshal, has softened a rule on which buildings require sprinklers.The N.C. Building Code Council voted 8-4 earlier this week to relax the new...
Mar 15 2007 // Allied Insurance Brokers, a program administrator located in Marriottsville, Md., is now offering Farmers Insurance Group’s Habitational Program for apartment managers and owners as well as condominium associations...
Mar 1 2007 // A bill that would create a special health insurance pool for chronically ill people who aren’t insured or can’t afford coverage is getting another airing in the North Carolina Legislature.The measure won...
Feb 23 2007 // Margaret Corey Humphrey, 49, of Kinston, N.C., was arrested on two charges of obtaining property by false pretense and three charges of embezzlement by an insurance agent.Humphrey, who officials said has surrendered her...
Feb 9 2007 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long announced that an emergency cease and desist order was served on Continental Casualty Insurance Group, a company his department believes has targeted property owners in...
Jan 15 2007 // Police increased their patrols of churches across the city after fires broke out at two Baptist churches during the night and a break-in was discovered at a third — all within an hour.“We’re going to be...
Dec 29 2006 // Heavy rains and strong wind helped make 2006 a record-breaking year for the National Weather Service in Raleigh, N.C.The office had issued 577 severe-weather warnings this year as of Tuesday, in addition to 86 flash-flood...
Dec 25 2006 // 55% The rate hike that Florida’s insurer of last resort, Citizens Property Insurance Corp., decided to delay a vote on, following requests from lawmakers to wait until after the January special legislative...
Dec 24 2006 // The Hartford, West VirginiaThe Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has entered the personal lines independent agency market in West Virginia. Products being offered in West Virginia through The Hartford’s...
Dec 24 2006 // 55%The rate hike that Florida’s insurer of last resort, Citizens Property Insurance Corp., decided to delay a vote on, following requests from lawmakers to wait until after the January special legislative session....
Dec 20 2006 // North Carolina continues to stand out as the state with lowest auto insurance rates east of the Mississippi and fifth lowest in the nation.The statistics are gleaned from a report by the National Association of Insurance...
Dec 15 2006 // Two investigators with the North Carolina Department of Insurance, Chet Effler of Marion, N.C., and Martha Ann Ford of Chester, S.C., have been honored for their work on insurance fraud cases in 2006.Effler received an...
Dec 7 2006 // MMC Securities Corp., an affiliate of Marsh Inc., has completed a $510 million alternative collateral program on behalf of the North Carolina Self-Insurance Security Association for its security fund.The North Carolina...
Dec 5 2006 // In what officials describe as the largest auto insurance fraud ring in North Carolina history, 10 residents of Cleveland and Rutherford Counties are accused of defrauding insurance companies of an estimated $1...